Mark Levin, 8/16/2011.

WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN'S "THE SITUATION ROOM": Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, Republican presidential candidate now, says, the men and women of the United States military want someone who's worn the uniform. He says he served in the Air Force. Do you see a comment like that, that he makes, referring to you, as disrespectful to the command

"The Founders felt pretty strongly about counterfeiting. I don't -- I wouldn't call it treasonous, but I would call what our Federal Reserve does morally equivalent to counterfeiting because they create money out of thin air and they give us our problems," Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), GOP presidential candidate, told CNBC this evening.

GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry calls President Obama a black cloud over our economy. MSNBC's Ed Schultz edits the clip to make it look like Perry is calling Obama a "black cloud." (source: Breitbart.TV)

Chris Matthews comments House Republicans don't seem that "horny" to meet the public after introducing their policy plans earlier this year.

KARL ROVE: "It's his first time on the national stage, and it was a very unfortunate comment. You don't accuse the chairman of the federal reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him pretty ugly in Texas -- that's not, again, a presidential statement."

NBC News' Chuck Todd says President Obama promising to create jobs is raising the bar. TODD: "It does seem as if he has pledged to do this plan out there. Not a lot of details, but to me he's raised the bar, because he said, 'this plan is going to grow the economy, create jobs and deal with the debt.' So that's, sounds like a big, large plan to

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Appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball," Jennifer Donahue, a public policy fellow at the Eisenhower Institute and former political director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, called Mitt Romney a "beleaguered front-runner" and said that the GOP presidential race is now Rick Perry's to lose."He can match Romney dol

(From the Ron Paul 2012 campaign)

New Jersey Gov. Christie answers a question: "The important skill Terry really that they're talking about I think in that [New York Times] column and what people are hungering for in the country is someone in the White House who will lead and take risk. You know, I mean, things have gone--- what was your phrase? --- a modicum of success, I might be

Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country -- s

FOX News: A brand new Rasmussen poll shows that just days after announcing his candidacy, Texas Governor Rick Perry is the new Republican frontrunner for 2012. In a poll of likely GOP voters, 29 percent said they’d vote for Perry. Is

Jon Stewart: Even when the media does remember Ron Paul, it's only to reassure themselves that there's no need to remember Ron Paul.

"If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion," Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said at an event in Iowa on Monday.

Charles Krauthammer: "This is one of the great events in American history. He hasn't had this issue of debt on the table for two and a half years, especially since December when the budget, his deficit reduction commission reported, he's done absolutely nothing on this. And even today, after the gyrations in the market and after the downgrade an

It is "remarkable in the sense that just two years ago, the governor of Texas openly talked about leading Texas out of the United States of America -- and now this campaign has caused him to profess his love to the United States," former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs said on "Morning Joe" today.

SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN (I-CT): Well I haven't decided and I'm just waiting to see who the Republican candidate is and what President Obama's positions are at that point, so I got a little time as an independent not to feel rushed, because this is an important position. And I'm only one person but for every one of us who we support next year is going to

When asked if he thinks President Obama loves America, GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry told a reporter "you need to ask him." "I’m saying, you're a good reporter, go ask him," he added.

Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and chairman of the DNC, talks with Rachel Maddow about whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry's past statements about Social Security and Medicare will ultimately hurt his candidacy should he face President Obama in the general election.

This Democratic Web ad accuses GOP presidential candidates for "putting the ideology of the Tea Party first."

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Texas governor.

Karl Rove weighs in on straw poll results and Texas Gov. Rick Perry's candidacy. He also says he believes that Sarah Palin, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan will consider entering the field.